Electroacupuncture and moxibustion promote neutrophil apoptosis and improve ulcerative colitis in rats

Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 379-384

  Wu, Huan Gan ^a   Liu, Hui Rong ^a   Tan, Lin Ying ^a   Gong, Ye Jing ^a   Shi, Yin ^a   Zhao, Tian Ping ^a   Yi, Yao ^a   Yang, Yun ^a  

^a SHANGHAI RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ACUPUNCTURE AND MERIDIAN   (China)

Author keywords

Electroacupuncture; Moxibustion; Neutrophil apoptosis; Rats; Ulcerative colitis

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL CELL CULTURE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL INFILTRATION; CELL ISOLATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SHAPE; COLON MUCOSA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPT CELL; EDEMA; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPITHELIUM CELL; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPEREMIA; LAMINA PROPRIA; MALE; MOXIBUSTION; NEUTROPHIL CHEMOTAXIS; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; RAT; SUPERNATANT; ULCERATIVE COLITIS;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CELLS, CULTURED; COLITIS, ULCERATIVE; CYTOKINES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMANS; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; MALE; MOXIBUSTION; NEUTROPHILS; PARACRINE COMMUNICATION; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TISSUE EXTRACTS;

EID: 33846781664     PISSN: 01632116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10620-006-9561-y     Document Type: Article

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